Note: The following gear listing is hopelessly out of date and I don't foresee updating it any time soon, if ever. I'll leave the list up, for now, for illustrative purposes.

There are a whole slew of hard drive and solid state recorders available. Which you select depends on your needs. Most tapers want a recorder that supports both analog and digital inputs - analog for when they first start out, digital for when they add an outboard ADC to their gear. While quite a few recorders support analog-in recording, very few support digital-in recording. See the highl-level table below for details on each recorder.

For a bit more info on each, check out this post outlining each recorder's capability in supporting the following functions: mic power, gain, ADC, storage.